Quotes About Values

When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you would spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

Its hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

It's a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

We have got to get to the point of looking very, very hard at who is running for office, Kelly said. We need to look at their character, their record on integrity, morality ... then say, 'Now let's talk politics.

Cerremos nuestros ojos, usemos nuestra mente y percibamos cómo sería nuestra existencia si el velero de nuestra vida navegara siguiendo el rumbo que marcan nuestras prioridades y las velas las impulsara el viento de nuestros valores.

Los valores que guían nuestra existencia los ven los demás no por lo que decimos, sino por cómo actuamos, ya que al fin y al cabo nuestra vida es nuestro mensaje.

The more fake and commercialized the world gets, the more people respond to things that have a real core of truth. I believe that every human being is hardwired to recognize that. Whatever you choose to do with your life--whether it's running a company or cooking dinner--stand for something you know is true.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Un niño de mi clase dice que su abuela es una vieja de mierda. Yo le enseñé que en todo caso debe decir una anciana de mierda.

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail... We democrats believe that we can make it all the new way with the whole family intact

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

his conscience was at war with all his aristocratic upbringing. Gentlemen never apologized.

very poor men are seldom bad. And that very bad men are seldom poor.

It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?